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Repo down for maintenance, March 2, 7am-9am

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[Repo.eecs](http://repo.eecs.berkeley.edu) service will be down for maintenance on March 2nd, from 7 am to 9am.

The previous attempt to update the OS was not successful and the system was reverted back to original state. There were numerous problems which caused both OS and webUI application not to work properly.

After thorough investigation, all problematic files have been identified and made ready for clean upgrade.

Resolved as of 2017-03-02 08:30:00

Storage Issues, 6pm Friday Feb 24

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The Department’s fileserver is having operational issues. Staff are investigating. The Network Appliance servers for EECS Home directories, Project space and some Instructional storage have been intermittently affected. This may affect other services which depend on the storage, e.g. personal web pages.
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Fileserver maintenance

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Upgrading NetaApp OS 11am-2pm on Presidents Day holiday 20th February

Department fileservice may experience some short interruptions during the maintenance window, approximately 11am until 2pm.

Many services that rely on access to department fileservice (home directories, webservice, repo service, NFS and CIFS mounts, etc) may notice some performance issues during this period.

We expect most, if not all, clients to recover automatically once work is complete. This news item will be updated to indicate when the maintenance is completed.

Systems still experiencing mount issues after the maintenance window, would need to remount or reboot.
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Change to @eecs email forwarding

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With respect to the bMail simplification program/project

bMail continues to handle @cs and @eecs bMail aliases
and bConnected lists (Google groups).

IRIS is now handling all other @cs and @eecs email forwarding.
This includes @cs and @eecs mail forwarding for people that don’t
have a bMail account and mailing lists that are not bConnected lists.
Formerly, the CalNet owner of such a redirect could update the
destination via the CalMail “Manage Your Redirects” gui
(graphical user interface); this functionality has been
deprecated/retired. For updates to all @cs and @eecs email
forwarding, please contact the IRIS Helpdesk via help@eecs

It is more robust for @eecs (and @cs) email to
be delivered to a bMail account or a
bConnected list. For helping converting an
email address to a bMail alias or a bConnected list,
please contact the IRIS Helpdesk via help@eecs.

During the February 16, 2017 until the morning of
Monday March 13, 2017 time frame, Google was sending probable
spam to @eecs email forwarding (handled by IRIS).

At 8am Monday March 13, 2017, Google was configured to
no longer attempt to send spam to @eecs email forwarding.
When bMail receives what Google determines is probably
spam destined for @eecs email forwarding, Google sometimes
bounces the mail back to the sender as “Address not found.”

February 2017 Windows Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 14th, 2017, as a kind of Valentine’s Day present to all.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 15th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, February 15th, depending on additional software updates.
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Disable SMBv1 on Windows systems

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Due to critical vulnerabilities in Windows SMB (file sharing) services, the
campus Information Security & Policy (ISP) group advises
disabling of SMBv1 on all campus Windows systems, and that you prepare to update
all Windows systems quickly on Patch Tuesday (Feb 14) to patch more
recent versions of SMB (SMBv2 and SMBv3).

Please see our FAQ page for some details on disabling SMBv1.

Wireless Controller Upgrade, Jan. 26 2017

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We will be performing an emergency upgrade of our wireless controllers tonight beginning at 9:30PM to address a bug which has been causing periodic controller crashes that bring down the wireless network. The last outage generated by this bug was on Jan. 18, but we also experience more frequent crashes that do not affect production due to redundancy.

The controllers have the capability for a hitless upgrade (upgrade without affecting service), however we have had mixed experience with this feature in the past. We expect there may be an outage of 10-15 minutes while the controllers reload after the upgrade.

This maintenance will affect wireless networks in Soda, Cory, Sutardja Dai, Blum, and Jacobs Halls, as well as the Calvin Lab, BWRC, and BiD Lab in HMMB.

Please direct any questions about the upgrade to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.
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